Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit (Dillingen an der Donau)
The Catholic hospital church Heilig Geist in Dillingen on the Danube , a town in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , is a late Gothic building from around 1500. In 1687 the church was redesigned in the Baroque style and equipped with Wessobrunn stucco .
history
The Dillinger Spital , a foundation of Count Hartmann IV. Von Dillingen and his son Hartmann V , Bishop of Augsburg , was first mentioned in 1257 in a deed of donation. The two counts equipped the hospital with goods in Dillingen and Wittislingen . Until around 1300 the hospital was under the direction of Augustinian canons , who were replaced by a hospital master after it was closed. Although it is believed that the hospital one which at the foundation Holy Spirit consecrated chapel possessed a hospital church , however, is attested only in 1448 in writing, as the in Wertingen located monastery consecration Berg was incorporated. Under Prince-Bishop Friedrich II von Zollern (1486–1505) the hospital buildings were enlarged and included in the city fortifications. The hospital church received its present appearance during this time. In 1687 the interior was redesigned in Baroque style under Prince-Bishop Johann Christoph von Freyberg (1665–1690). The work was presumably directed by Johann Schmuzer , who created the heavy stucco decor with his Wessobrunn plasterers . In 1746/47, Franz Xaver Kleinhans and Balthasar Suiter built the upper floor of the sacristy . The oktogon tower was built around 1756 by Johann Michael Suiter. In 1995 an exterior renovation was carried out. During the interior renovation in 1998/99, the baroque color scheme restored in 1934, which had meanwhile been covered with a white-gray covering, was exposed again.
architecture
Exterior construction
The soaring , slender roof turret with a double onion hood covered with sheet copper rises above the central risalit of the west facade . The octagonal structure sits on a surrounding cornice , its bevelled corners are reinforced by Tuscan pilasters . Large, segmented arcades of sound open on four sides , above which clock faces are attached to the north and south sides. The attic storey is pierced by transverse oval openings and delimited below and to the roof by a richly profiled cornice.
The ogival west portal on the outside is cut into the tower projection. The west facade is broken up by two round windows at the bottom and two pointed arched windows at the gallery height, above which there are small pointed arched glare fields.
inner space
The single-nave nave is divided into four bays and has an irregular floor plan. Run by a with transverse arches under captured basket arch ton covered. The walls are structured by flat Tuscan double pilasters, which are cranked with the cornice on the long sides . An egg bar frieze runs under the cornice . A stilted round arch with profiled fighters opens the nave in the east to the strongly recessed, rectangular choir , which is raised by one step and is covered by a needle cap barrel. The outside pointed arch windows of the nave and the choir are rounded inside. The western end is formed by a gallery from around 1880 resting on iron columns , whose curved parapet is decorated with flat glare fields. A wrought iron grille from the same period separates the space under the gallery from the rest of the nave.
In the north-west the rectangular dungeon chapel opens under the gallery, which covers a groin vault and in whose arched niche is the sculpture Christ on the Scourge Column (around 1730) by Johann Georg Bschorer and two angel putti by Joseph Anton Libigo from 1706.
Piece
The coat of arms of the founder of the hospital, Bishop Hartmann V, is housed in stucco cartouches above the choir arch, and on the right is the coat of arms of the person who commissioned the renovation, Prince-Bishop Johann Christoph von Freyberg. In the middle is the year MDCLXXXVII (1687), the year of the baroque redesign. On the ceiling of the nave there are medallions made of foliage with the monograms of Mary , Christ and Joseph . Geometric frame stucco divides the vault into fields, which are filled with leaf rosettes , winged angel heads with fruit baskets and strong acanthus tendrils.
organ
The present organ was installed in 1972 during the restoration of the hospital church by the organ building company Sandtner from Dillingen. This organ was originally made in 1886 by the organ builder Balthasar Pröbstl for the Church of the Assumption of Mary , the monastery church of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters. When the monastery church received a new organ, the Sandtner company took over the Pröbstl organ, restored it and used it as a loan organ.
Furnishing
- The wooden crucifix on the north wall is dated around 1500.
- The figure of Our Lady of Sorrows under the cross was created by Johann Michael Fischer in 1784/85.
- On the gallery parapet there is a relief depicting Anna Selbdritt , a work by the Ulm School from the environment of Jörg Syrlin the Younger , which is dated around 1510.
- The figure group Holy Walk or Holy Family on the move was created around 1690 and depicts Mary, Joseph and Jesus as children equipped with walking sticks.
- God the Father hovers over the Holy Change with a globe in his hand on a cloud from which an angel's head protrudes, a sculpture by the sculptor Stephan Luidl from 1733.
- The picture of the founder with the representation of Bishop Hartmann V comes from the first half of the 19th century. It is based on a model from the 17th century.
literature
- Ludwig Häring: The hospital church to the Holy Spirit. Hospital Foundation Dillingen ad Donau. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-372-7 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia (arr.: Bruno Bushart, Georg Paula) . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1989, ISBN 3-422-03008-5 , p. 252-253 .
- Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities. In: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Edited by the district of Dillingen ad Donau. 3rd revised edition. Dillingen an der Donau 2005, p. 207.
Web links
- Spitalkirche Heilig Geist Heilig-Geist-Stift Dillingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 33 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 50 ″ E